Context
No dwelling exists with no context, which is simply the surrounding setting. The context can be suburban, urban, rural, mountainous, prairie or some other kind of environment. In a lot of ways the context for a house can drive the general design strategy.
A home’s design could be “in context” with its setting or be “out of context,” about more into another leadership. A home’s design can match, echo or comparison its context.
Bushman Dreyfus Architects
Its context can be complemented by a home’s plan through its use of form and colour. By way of instance, a flat, open area can provide the setting for a house which resembles a village and pays homage to the historic farmhouses nearby.
A waterside house in a town can match its context using an urbane, vertical design, enhanced by its reflection in the water’s surface.
Centre Sky Architecture Ltd
The design of A home can replicate its context. By way of instance, the shapes and forms found in a mountainous setting can be used for the design of a home’s roof, like here.
RoehrSchmitt Architecture
Or the design can comparison with its context, as shown here, using a modernist design inserted among a streetscape of conventional suburban houses.